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Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31

Welcome to the 2011-09-01 edition of the Free The Phone / Openmoko Community Updates. 我们是一群自由组织到一起的人，这些人主要来自Openmoko Inc.具有开创意义的产品Neo1973和Neo FreeRunner这2个产品的的开发人员和用户。 Nowadays most efforts are around free software distributions for a range of mobile phones, including the original Neo products. There are also several spin-off companies inspired by the Openmoko Inc's work.

Distributions

Distributions lists releases and other significant updates in distributions that have some support for the Openmoko devices.

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian is a universal operating system used on many embedded devices, servers and home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's ARM(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in.

FSO2 also means, like mentioned in the hardware section, a start of support for many new phones like Palm Pre, Nokia N900, Nexus One and others that have at least some support in FSO daemons

A new 2.6.34 kernel was released into the pkg-fso repository, required by all Neo FreeRunner users that have upgraded to Debian unstable's newest udev version. It includes the wire_up_sys_accept4.patch.

Enlightenment 17 (E17) has seen several updates, but the Python bindings still lag behind and the needed versions are only available in the experimental repository

Other relevant package updates include new upstream snapshots of zhone and intone, even though both are relatively little developed compared to their competitors in the phone UI and music player fields

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Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31

Welcome to the 2011-09-01 edition of the Free The Phone / Openmoko Community Updates. 我们是一群自由组织到一起的人，这些人主要来自Openmoko Inc.具有开创意义的产品Neo1973和Neo FreeRunner这2个产品的的开发人员和用户。 Nowadays most efforts are around free software distributions for a range of mobile phones, including the original Neo products. There are also several spin-off companies inspired by the Openmoko Inc's work.

Distributions

Distributions lists releases and other significant updates in distributions that have some support for the Openmoko devices.

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian is a universal operating system used on many embedded devices, servers and home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's ARM(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in.

FSO2 also means, like mentioned in the hardware section, a start of support for many new phones like Palm Pre, Nokia N900, Nexus One and others that have at least some support in FSO daemons

A new 2.6.34 kernel was released into the pkg-fso repository, required by all Neo FreeRunner users that have upgraded to Debian unstable's newest udev version. It includes the wire_up_sys_accept4.patch.

Enlightenment 17 (E17) has seen several updates, but the Python bindings still lag behind and the needed versions are only available in the experimental repository

Other relevant package updates include new upstream snapshots of zhone and intone, even though both are relatively little developed compared to their competitors in the phone UI and music player fields